These are the ten most read articles on FOSS Force for the month of July, 2015. 1. Yet Another Reason to Avoid Windows 10 by Christine Hall. Published July 20, 2015. Microsoft's EULA for Windows 10 not only forces its users to accept all updates. it allows Redmond to install software at will. 2. Using the New iproute2 Suite by Don Parris. [ 219 more words. ]

These are the ten most read articles on FOSS Force for the month of July, 2015. 1. Yet Another Reason to Avoid Windows 10 by Christine Hall. Published July 20, 2015. Microsoft’s EULA for Windows 10 ...

It's been pretty warm where I live on the Central California coast, and I hope everyone else has been keeping cool -- or as cool as possible -- this week. After OSCON, there's been sort of a lull in news that's uniquely FOSS-related, but we do have a couple of tidbits to throw you as we end the week. All in the Family… [ 356 more words. ]

It didn’t take nearly as long to count the votes for our desktop poll as it did for last week’s distro poll, mainly due to the fact that not as many of you voted, but also because there aren’t nearly as many desktop environments and window managers as their are Linux distros. Also, unlike the […]

The FOSS Force Linux Distro poll is now one for the record books. The poll, which ran for a week, finishing just before midnight on Wednesday, asked the simple question, “What Linux distro do you use most?”

We figured this would be a popular poll going in. What we didn’t know was exactly how popular. […]

Market share matters, even in the nonprofit world in which most distros live. Most likely, a large user base means more dollars coming in from donations or corporate grants. Also, a popular and much used distro might also prompt more folks with technical […]

It’s hard to remember that it wasn’t that long ago that we only had a couple of choices to meet our computing needs. As recently as 2007, the year before Obama was elected, someone looking for a new computer basically could choose between a desktop or […]

Not so long ago all of us pretty much did our computing either on a desktop or a laptop. Those were pretty much our only choices, unless servers are included and they’re pretty much desktops without…well, a desktop.

These days we have all sorts of computing devices available to us, with more options being added […]